Rod packing



ROD PACKING Filed April 4, 1938 If f 33 HHHH 11 I9 I 14 @5 20 I 27 zs 2 /28 n- W 3mm, W. C fioazn'w,

UNITED STATEfi ATENT OFF'IQE ROD PACKING Henry 0. Bostwiek, Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, assignor to The Akron Standard Mold Company, Akron, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application April 4, 1938, Serial No. 199,780

2 Claims. (01. 286-89) This invention, relating to packed rod and shaft bore 2| of smaller size receives the lower packing joints, has for its object to provide a simple, durring I1, in a rectangular groove 23. formed beable, substantially leak-proof, metallic packing tween the circumference and bottom of said bore for joints such as those between a cylinder head and the bottom of ring I8. The upper packing a. and a sliding rod or plunger, and for use in any ring H is received in a similar, reversed, rectan- 5 other situation to which it may apply. gular groove formed between a. bore 24 within the Notwithstanding the long-existing need for plate flange 22, having the same diameter as bore such a device, for example on ram cylinders and 2 I, and the top end wall of said bore and top face analogous structures employing oil as a pressure of spacerring I3. All horizontal faces of these medium, the leakage of which is wasteful and parts are in parallel planes normal to the axis 1 otherwise objectionable, no thoroughly satisfacof rod i I, and all vertical faces are cylindrical. tory metallic rod packing has existed prior to this The spacer ring is is preferably held tightly beinvention, so far as I am aware. tween the bottom of flange 22 and the bottom Of the accompanying drawing, Fig. l is a lonof bore 20, and the packing rings I'i have a 16: gitudinal, vertical sectionshowing portions of a limited radial movement. in their grooves, per- 153 piston rod and cylinder head having a metallic mitted by very small clearances between their top packing embodying my invention in a preferred and bottom faces and the adjoining faces of the form. grooves.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the pack- Each of the packing rings I! is of a character 20 ing rings. shown as, a, whole in Fig. 2 and partly shown in 2.0;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail longitudinal section the other views. For rod packings, the ring is of one side of the assembly, taken through the preferably composed of a stifi metal, such as cast lower ring on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. iron, slightly elastic, and comprises an annulus Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section on line 44 body 25, trans-split as 26 and formed at one end, of F'jg 2 adjacent to the cylindrical inner periphery 21 25 Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section and Fig. 6 a' and one adjoining flat face 28 thereof, with alonoross section on line 66 of Fig. 5, showing a gitudinally extending groove 29 of rectangular modification. or L-shaped section as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In the drawing, I0 is the head of a casing such From the other end of the annulus body projects 30 as the power cylinder of an oil ram or any anala gap-bridging tongue 39, which may be for ed 30 ogous structure, having a pressure chamber on its as a separate piece, brazed or otherwise permalower side, in which may operate a piston (not nently secured to the body on a lapping joint so shown), and II is a rod or shaft, such as apiston as to become integral therewith, and slidingly rod, or part of a plunger, slidable through an mounted in the groove 29. The inner peripheral opening I2 in the head. An annular boss or proface of this tongue is continuous with the inner 35 jection I3 on the head, formed with a rod-surperipheral face 21' of the annulus body, and it and rounding chamber designated generally at I i, the groove 29 are formed with complemental flat constitutes a housing for the packing, closed at and cylindrically arcuate faces in overlapped its outer end by a ring 55 which is detachably sliding contact, respectively parallel with the secured to the boss by cap screws It. This ring plane and with the central axis of the ring. Each 40 somewhat resembles a gland, but has only a conof the rings I1 is normally of slightly smaller fining and not a squeezing action in relation to internal circumference than the outer circumferthe packing. ence of the rod iI,so that the ring must be ex- The chamber l4 may contain one or more .panded to get it on the rod, and then grips the metal packing rings II, two being here shown, latter with a contractile tension. 45

separated by an endless metal spacer ring I8 In assembling this packing upon a rod II prowhose bore is slightly larger than the size of the jecting through the aperture I2 in the casing or shaft H. The surrounding wall of the packing cylinder head It and through the open-packing chamber is cylindrically step-bored in three difchamber I 3, the lower packing ring i1 is first apferent sections I9, 2B, 2!, of downwardly decreasplied to the rod, at the proper place thereon and 50 ing respective diameters, the upper or largest seated at the bottom of the smallest bore 2i, the bore I9 receiving a short cylindrical flange 22 spacer ring 18 is next applied and seated in the which projects downwardly from the body of the bore 20 of. intermediate size, the upper packing retaining plate I5. The bore 29 of intermediate ring I! is then applied to the rod, against the 56 size receives the spacer ring I8 and the lower spacer ring, and finally the retaining ring I5 is applied to the boss I3 and drawn down by the screws [6 with its flange 22 in the largest bore I 9, so that the lower end of said flange will clamp and hold the spacer ring [8 in place. The packing, when properly fitted, effectively seals the rod II against substantial escape of fluid pressure from the cylinder or other casing chamber under the head III, the sealing being improved as the inner surfaces of the rings I? wear down slightly against the rod. The effectiveness of the seal is greatly promoted by the presence of the tongue 30 at the inner periphery of the ring body, overlapping about one-half of the depth of the gap 26 and slidable in overlapped relation to adjoining faces of the groove 29.

As will be seen for the lower ring H in Fig. 3, the top of the gap 26, on a rising movement of rod H, when leakage under the ring presses its top face against the bottom face of spacer ring [8, is thereby closed by the endwise pressure, and said gap is otherwise closed at the inner periphery of the ring by the presence of the tongue 30, underlapping upon the spacer ring. Pressure getting under the packing ring and through the gap 26, acting radially inward against the outer periphery of the ring, whose area is greater than that of the inner periphery, exerts a differential inward radial pressure which tends to hold the ring I! more tightly against the rod II. A similar action exists with the upper packing ring H, as to any pressure fluid escaping past the lower one. The resulting fluid tightness of the rod joint is highly advantageous when oil is used as the pressure medium, in preventing waste and loss of emciency and the fouling of floors, and avoiding or reducing the necessity for providing drainage, and is also highly useful for other fluids.

The modification shown in Figs. and 6 emsplit, elastic, metallic, contractile packing rings I! having ordinary lapped end joints, and a surrounding gland-like cage 3| fitted in a central bore 32 of the cylinder head, over the lowermost packing ring of the series. Said cage is integrally formed with inwardly-extending spacer rings IB between the packing rings, and the three upper packing rings are insertible and withdrawable, before assembling the packing unit with the cylinder and piston, through slots 33 in a side wall of the cage, between said spacer rings.

It will be understood that various other changes of embodiment may be made within the scope of theclaims, and the invention may be employed for other uses than rod packing, as, for example, to pack rotary shafts of pumps and other apparatus.

I claim:

1. A packing assembly comprising a casing head having a rod bore and a packing chamber with a circumferential wall step-bored in at least three diameters larger than the rod bore, to form partial packing-ring grooves and anintermediate spacer ring seat, a rod extending through said chamber, a trans-split, elastic, metal packing ring of the bridged-gap, tongue-and-groove type, in a smaller bore of said chamber, a detachable retaining ring on said head, having a flange in the largest bore of said chamber, and an internal ring bore, a similar packing ring in the last-said bore, and an endless spacer ring seated in an intermediate bore of said chamber, and held by said flange against endwise movement.

2. A packing assembly comprising an outward- 1y cylindrical cage inwardly formed with a pair of axial sealing faces and an intermediate packing-ring groove extended in a slot which is 0105- able on the outside by endwise insertion of the cage in a complemental rod chamber, and a trans-split, contractile, rod-packing ring insertible and removable through said slot.

HENRY C. BOSTWICK. 

